Passive With Desire - Vinyle Orange Trouble

Description

Since his first album, *Passive With Desire*, released in 2016 under the name Choir Boy, Adam Klopp has been creating nostalgic anthems using the swirling sound of 1980s synthesizers and delivering dark, captivating, and cinematic songs that broadcast pensive heartbreak and bright hope. Raised in the Mormon faith, Adam spent his youth on the pews of his place of worship, but also hustling in DIY punk venues, before leaving the sect in the midst of a mission in Tahiti. The duality of faith and fiction is at the heart of the lush explorations of this debut album. Recorded at Studio Dada, the album's tracks transformed into sketches filled with theatrical flamboyance, wounds left by loss, and allusions to the happy days of nocturnal, electronic pop. Retaining elements of Adam's original demos, *Passive With Desire* was recorded with a full band, and completed with trumpet, strings, as well as archival samples evoking his hazy youth. Recorded by Adam Klopp, Bret Meisenbach and Stephen Cope, *Passive With Desire* is the entry point into the world of Choir Boy, where sensitive wit, literary lyricism, and a synth-led approach to traditional songwriting are united by the universal themes of loss, desire, evolution, and exploration.